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They aren’t as hip as those curly cables we’ve shown you a few days ago, but Roboden [JP], the world’s first elastic electrical cable, is way more useful. Its maker, major Japanese chemical company Asahi Kasei, says the cable stretches by a factor of 1.5 – like the human skin.
In the video embedded below, Asahi Kasei mainly talks about robot applications. The cable… Read More

Japan-based chemical and tech company Asahi Kasei has developed a small healthcare product that should make life for paramedics, emergency doctors (and patients) easier: the portable device (pictured) makes it possible to instantly access all medical data on a specific person with a PC or smartphone, via RFID. Read More

Tokyo-based chemical company Asahi Kasei, a corporate giant with 25,000 employees, has announced an environmentally friendly product of the very special kind: swimsuits [JP]. The lovely ladies you can see on the picture (Ayumi Kura, 20, on the left and eighteen-year-old Shi Weng Lu on the right) are wearing bikinis made of polyethylene tephthalate. Polyethylene tephthalate (PET) is the stuff… Read More